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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 33</span><span class="fp-text">LE BOUFFON ET LE PAYSAN</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXXIII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">SCURRA <span class="fp-correction" title="...  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">ET</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="ET  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-no-difference">[...]</span></span> RUSTICUS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les hommes ordinairement cèdent à d'injustes préventions,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et quand ils sont encore tout plein de leurs faux jugements,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'évidence les force au repentir.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Pravo favore labi mortales solent,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et pro judicio dum stant erroris sui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad paenitendum rebus manifestis agi.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un citoyen noble et riche voulant célébrer des jeux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">proposa une récompense à quiconque présenterait un spectacle nouveau.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il invita tout le monde à. concourir.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Des comédiens ambulants vinrent se disputer la victoire.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'un d'eux, un Bouffon, connu par ses saillies,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se vanta de donner un genre de spectacle</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui n'avait encore paru sur aucun théâtre.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette nouvelle se répand et voilà la ville en mouvement.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les places, auparavant inoccupées, manquent maintenant à la foule.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Notre acteur paraît sur la scène, seul,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sans aucun appareil, sans personne pour l'aider dans son rôle.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'attente avait commandé le silence.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il baisse tout à coup la tête, la cache sous son manteau,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et se met à si bien imiter avec sa voix le cri du cochon de lait,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que tout le monde croyait qu'il en eût un sous sa robe.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On lui ordonna de la secouer, il le fait</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et on ne trouve rien. On l'accabla d'éloges</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et on le poursuivit d'applaudissements.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un paysan qui était présent s'écria&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Par Hercule&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il ne l'emportera pas sur moi.&nbsp;» Aussitôt il promit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que le lendemain il ferait mieux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La foule fut encore plus considérable, les esprits étaient prévenus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et l'on vint plutôt pour se moquer que pour juger.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ils s'avancent tous deux. Le Bouffon commence à grogner le premier,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et aussitôt partent de la salle des applaudissements et des cris.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le Paysan feint de cacher un cochon de lait sous ses vêtements</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">(ce qu'il faisait réellement ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, comme on n'avait rien trouvé sur le Bouffon, on était sans défiance),</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pince l'oreille du pauvre animal,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">auquel la douleur arrache des cris bien naturels.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les spectateurs soutinrent que le Bouffon avait bien mieux imité</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et voulurent faire chasser le Paysan.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais celui-ci, montrant le cochon de lait,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">leur prouva d'une manière irrécusable leur erreur&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Voilà, dit-il, comme vous êtes bons juges.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Facturus ludos quidam dives nobilis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">proposito cunctos invitavit <span class="fp-correction" title="premio  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">praemio</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praemio  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">premio</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quam quisque posset ut novitatem ostenderet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Venere artifices laudis ad certamina ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quos inter scurra, notus urbano sale,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">habere dixit se genus spectaculi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod in theatro numquam prolatum foret.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Dispersus rumor civitatem concitat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Paulo ante <span class="fp-correction" title="vacuam  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">vacua</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="vacua  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">vacuam</span></span> turbam deficiunt loca.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In scaena vero postquam solus constitit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sine apparatu, nullis adjutoribus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">silentium ipsa fecit expectatio.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ille in sinum repente <span class="fp-correction" title="dimisit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">demisit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="demisit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">dimisit</span></span> caput</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et sic porcelli vocem est imitatus sua,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">verum ut subesse <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n137/mode/1up">p.74</a>]</span> pallio <span class="fp-correction" title="contenderet  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">contenderent</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="contenderent  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">contenderet</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et excuti juberent. Quo facto simul</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nihil est repertum, multis onerant lancibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hominemque plausu prosequuntur maximo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc vidit fieri rusticus. «&nbsp;Non, mehercule&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Me vincet, inquit, et statim professus est</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">idem facturum melius se <span class="fp-correction" title="post tridie  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">postridie</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="postridie  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">post tridie</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Fit turba major. Jam favor mentes tenet,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et <span class="fp-correction" title="derisuros  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">derisuri</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="derisuri  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">derisuros</span></span>, non <span class="fp-correction" title="spectaturos  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">spectaturi</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="spectaturi  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">spectaturos</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="sit et...  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">sedent</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sedent  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sit et...</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Uterque prodit. Scurra <span class="fp-correction" title="digrunnit  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">degrunnit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="degrunnit  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">digrunnit</span></span> prior</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Movetque plausus et clamores suscitat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc simulans sese vestimentis <span class="fp-correction" title="rusticis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">rusticus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="rusticus  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">rusticis</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">porcellum obtegere (quod faciebat scilicet,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed, in priore quia nihil compererant, latens),</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pervellit aurem vero, quem celaverat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et cum dolore vocem naturae exprimit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Adclamat populus <span class="fp-correction" title="scurra  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">scurram</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="scurram  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">scurra</span></span> multo similius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">imitatum et cogit rusticum trudi foras.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">At ille <span class="fp-correction" title="proferet  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">profert</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="profert  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">proferet</span></span> ipsum porcellum e sino,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">turpemque aperto pignore errorem probans&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;En hic declarat quales sitis judices&nbsp;!&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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